{"id":20884,"date":"2010-06-13T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T08:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/elsewhere-on-discover-seal-whiskers-sea-monsters-and-a-baby-exoplanet-80beats\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T08:09:19","slug":"elsewhere-on-discover-seal-whiskers-sea-monsters-and-a-baby-exoplanet-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/elsewhere-on-discover-seal-whiskers-sea-monsters-and-a-baby-exoplanet-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Elsewhere on DISCOVER: Seal Whiskers, Sea Monsters, and a Baby Exoplanet | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16103\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_elsewhere.jpg\" alt=\"elsewhere\" width=\"600\" height=\"149\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">80beats aims to bring you all the science news that&rsquo;s fit to turn into bytes of digital information, but sometimes DISCOVER&rsquo;s other bloggers get to the juicy news stories first. To make sure you don&rsquo;t miss anything, here are a couple of links:<\/p><ul><li> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/06\/10\/seals-do-it-with-whiskers-sharks-do-it-with-noses-%E2%80%93-tracking-fish-with-supersenses\/\">Supersenses<\/a>! Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science covers two journal articles in which scientists investigated the amazing sense of touch in seal whiskers and sharks&rsquo; equally astounding sense of smell in the water. To test the sensitivity of seal whiskers, researchers blindfolded a seal and had him &ldquo;read&rdquo; the turbulence of a wake.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li> For the first time, scientists get to watch as an exoplanet orbits its star&mdash;63 light years away. Check out <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/06\/10\/astronomers-see-exoplanet-orbiting-its-parent-star\/\">Phil Plait&rsquo;s Bad Astronomy post<\/a> for the must-see image. Elsewhere on the Web, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/06\/100610-youngest-planet-exoplanet-space-science\/\">National Geographic<\/a> notes that this planet, Beta Pictoris b, is just a baby. According to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/science.1187187\">paper<\/a> published in <em>Science<\/em>, Beta Pictoris appears to be only a few million years old, yet it&rsquo;s fully formed&ndash;which surprised astronomers who thought that planets take much longer to come into their own.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li> Finally, a look back to the marine reptiles that ruled the prehistoric seas. A new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/sci;328\/5984\/1379\">study<\/a> suggests that unlike most reptiles, these mighty sea monsters may have been able to regulate their body temperatures, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2010\/06\/10\/prehistoric-sea-dragons-kept-themselves-warm\/\">reports Ed Yong<\/a>. That ability could have allowed these top-of-the-food-chain hunters to swim fast and dive deep, regardless of ocean temperatures.<\/li><\/ul><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oQYZhE7geopacCy9gplyBmahUKk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oQYZhE7geopacCy9gplyBmahUKk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><div><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_80beats?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_80beats?i=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_80beats?i=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_80beats?i=m6qxAGcZOek:gsJ-tWsE_Tc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_m6qxAGcZOek\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c17f4_gSy4Y_6JpGk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>80beats aims to bring you all the science news that&rsquo;s fit to turn into bytes of digital information, but sometimes DISCOVER&rsquo;s other bloggers get to the juicy news stories first. To make sure you don&rsquo;t miss anything, here are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/elsewhere-on-discover-seal-whiskers-sea-monsters-and-a-baby-exoplanet-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}